User:Maria cuse/Sandbox

I am a senior International Relations and Geography major at Syracuse University.

Criticisms

Economic and Social rights are particularly more difficult to expose and enforce than civil and political rights and the CESR has met many challenges concerning its work and/or strategies, some met with success and others with failure. Critics suggest that it is not enough for an organization to simply expose a violation at the risk of becoming just another voice in a crowd but that greater methodological strength is needed. This includes not just focusing efforts at the higher end of the spectrum such as with governments and donors but more in-depth and greater involvement of the local populations who will be the ones most affected by a reallocation of resources inherent in economic and social rights. Economic and social right organizations, including the CESR, can sometimes spend too much time and effort working for new governmental spending and distributive justice at the risk of negating the real nature of the violations and turning them into monetary value. Significantly, many scholars and critics suggest it is more important to stigmatize rather than just work for accountability of actions and violations. Though not always efficient with every situation, analysis of violations should be more issue specific since economic and social rights cover a wide range of issues. More plainly put, some economic and social rights benefit from more use of stigmatization and thus public pressure than others.

This stigmatization means less focus on the existence of a violation and more emphasis on the nature of the violation as arbitrary and/or discriminatory. This method, contrary to the CESR's main focus on international pressure, governmental accountability and violation exposure, allows a more clear method of identifying the violation, the violator and the remedy. Arbitration and discrimination automatically implies wrongdoing rather than focusing on distributive justice and money that makes it harder to target a violator because of the great diffusion of responsibility in economic and social rights. This cleared method of exposing extreme wrongdoing and working more among the local population helps to incite public outrage that can be more effective in situations than organizational and international pressure. Thus, according to these studies, the CESR might be more effective with certain issues and countries by inciting greater stigmatization amidst its accountability and policy efforts rather than merely violation exposure and law negation.